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Listen Here: When Dinosaurs Walked the Earth: Dad Rock in the 1970s

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 16, 2020 • ( 13 )

Every Record Tells A Story presents: A Blog You Can Listen To… You can listen to all the music mentioned in this post via the Mixcloud player above, or if that isn’t working click on this link and the Mixcloud… Read More ›

The Best Music of 2018 So Far…

By Every Record Tells A Story on July 2, 2018 • ( 7 )

Ah, it’s mid summer. A time of hazy, sunny evenings. As the organisers of Wimbledon erect their “Sale! Punnet of Strawberry’s: only £50” signs (complete with grocer’s comma) it’s the time of year that allows me to drag out the… Read More ›

How To Buy Elton John On Vinyl (and an Alternative Best-of Spotify Playlist)

By Every Record Tells A Story on June 22, 2018 • ( 7 )

Although we might all have a stab at naming Elton John’s best albums, in these times of Spotify, there sometimes needs to be a reason why a particular record should be bought on vinyl. Happily in Elton’s case there are… Read More ›

A Brief History of The Beatles

By Every Record Tells A Story on January 26, 2017 • ( 3 )

Last week we published a Beatles Playlist of songs compiled by Every Record Tells A Story readers which we hope will persuade my friend, a Sceptical Swede that The Beatles are actually a half-decent band. In case you missed it,… Read More ›

The Ultimate Beatles Playlist (For People Who Don’t Like The Beatles)

By Every Record Tells A Story on January 17, 2017 • ( 10 )

In the last blog post, I introduced you to a friend from Sweden named Agaton who told me he had always found The Beatles’ music irritating. He asked me to come up with a playlist of Beatles tunes he would… Read More ›

Please Please Help! Build A Beatles Playlist For Someone Who “Doesn’t Like The Beatles”

By Every Record Tells A Story on January 12, 2017 • ( 40 )

I was catching up with a friend recently when he delivered something of a bolt from the blue. With a voice that appeared as nonchalant as that of a serial killer’s he confessed, without apparent shame, that he didn’t like… Read More ›

Aretha Franklin’s Emotional First Performance

By Every Record Tells A Story on September 29, 2016 • ( 2 )

…and Why It Took Nine Albums To Score Aretha’s First Hit Aretha Franklin sat at a piano in her father’s church, just days after her mother’s death. She was just ten years old and about to make her first ever… Read More ›

President Obama’s Playlists. Slightly Better Than The Average Politician…

By Every Record Tells A Story on August 13, 2016 • ( 3 )

The news that President Obama has released two summer playlists for us to enjoy – a daytime and nighttime selection of songs – rather cements his reputation as the coolest politician around, albeit this is a pretty thin field. And… Read More ›

An Alternative Best of…Journey

By Every Record Tells A Story on April 26, 2015 • ( 16 )

Take A Midnight Train Going Anywhere With This Alternative Best of Playlist For AOR Kings: Journey… The idea that Journey might be pretty cool is clearly a difficult one to get your head around, but back in the eighties, Journey… Read More ›

Mix-tapes and Indie Points – A Users Guide

By Every Record Tells A Story on January 24, 2015 • ( 7 )

Good news. The mixtape is not dead….it’s just called a “playlist”… Where sensitive Belle and Sebastian-loving-indie-types once crafted cassette tapes filled with songs that told the prettiest girls in their class just how deep their feelings of love were through… Read More ›